1630 for
Filippo Colonna who also wanted to dedicate it to Our Lady of Mount Carmel
It was
built in the area of the older church S. Lorenzo in Janiculo or De
Curtibus
TO THE LEFT
OF THE ENTRANCE
“Funeral Monument of Veronica Rondinini Origo”
by Carlo Fontana (1634/1714)
MAIN ALTAR
“Our Lady
of Mount Carmel and St. Simon Stock” about 1630 by Andrea
Camassei (1602/49)
In the
chancel “Virgin and Sts. Teresa and Joseph” by Andrea
Pozzo (1642/1709)
CHAPEL ON
THE LEFT
“St. Egidio”
by Cristoforo Roncalli aka Pomarancio (1552/1626)
In the
monastery, since 1968, there are the headquarters of the Comunità di S.
Egidio (Community of St. Egidio) a “public association of lay people of the
Catholic Church” formed by about 50,000 members living in more than 70
countries around the world, dedicated to communicating the Gospel and its
implementation in practice, helping the poor, the sick and those in need of
help
In the MONASTERY
there is also the
Museo di Roma in Trastevere
Museum
of Rome in the Trastevere District
Section of
the Museo di Roma (Museum of Rome)
opened in 1977 in the wing renovated by Attilio
Spaccarelli (1890/1975)
It show
aspects of everyday Roman life from the late 1700s to the end of 1800s
Six “Roman Scenes”
depicting life-size aspects of everyday Roman life in the nineteenth century:
A pharmacy,
the depot of a wine wagon, the courtyard of an inn where one could dance the saltarello
(a Roman folk dance), the interior of an inn, a public square with a public
scribe and two pipers in front of a shrine
“Nativity
scene” set in Rome in the nineteenth century
Materials
belonging to the Roman poet Trilussa (1871/1950) donated after his death to the
City of Rome, shown in part in the so-called TRILUSSA ROOM including a “Vase of the deers”
in bronze 1903/06 by Duilio Cambellotti
(1876/1960)
Terracotta
sculpture by Achille Pinelli (1809/41)
PAINTINGS
Series of
paintings of “Vanished Rome” of the end of the nineteenth century by Roesler Franz (1845/1907)
“Night View
of Rome” by Amedeo Simonetti (1874/1922)
“Fantastic
view of the Palatine Hill” by Carl Friederch Seiffert
(1809/91)
Watercolor “The fishmonger in Portico
d'Ottavia” about 1824 by the Englishman Samuel Prout (1783/1852)
“Piazza
Colonna at night” by Pasquale Ruggero
(1851/1915)
“Lunch in
the country” in 1858 by Vincenzo Morani
(1809/70)
Small views
by Diego Angeli (1869/1937)
“The seller of hot chestnuts in
Via Sistina” 1867 by Arnoldo Corrodi (1846/74)
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